Oskar Werner

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. The major character named Montag that is a third-generation fireman has changed by himself, and exteral facter. Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books in a futuristic city. In Montag’s world, firemen start fires rather than putting them out. The people in this society do not read books, enjoy nature, spend time by themselves, and…

Throughout life people go through different transitions and change as a person. New revelations and experiences can cause a person to change their moral views on a situation. Transformations like this one is what Guy Montag, the main character in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, went through. Guy Montag originally started off as someone who portrayed the image that he believed in society’s morals. Despite his apparent love for his job at the beginning of the novel Guy Montag was able to listen to…

Setting of the book The book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is set in the 24th century and depicts an imagined futuristic society in the US. The norms of this society is defined with overpopulation, fast cars that the author christens jet cars, large televisions are a common feature in most of the houses and people listen to radios attached to their ears. The TV sets serves as the main source of entertainment and also used by the government to spread propaganda. Family life as we know it today…

In part 2 of Fahrenheit 451, the main character Guy Montag meets a man named Faber. Most of part 2 talks about what Faber and Montag teach each other, and what they do together. First, Guy Montag meets Faber, who is an old English teacher who stopped working when books began to be taken away and viewed negatively. Faber is similar to an older, more intelligent Clarisse. Faber teaches Montag a lot of things. He teaches montag that reading books of all types will give him knowledge and make him…

Hawkeye Downs is a motocross track with a unique blend of people and place. Hawkeye Downs is where you see the fastest riders and the slowest riders around Cedar Rapids area. On a Saturday night the smell of gasoline and greasy hot dogs infects a two mile radius. The sound of 450cc bikes and 50cc bikes can be heard by people ordering Wendy’s four blocks away. However the best is the sight is from the score tower, the track camouflaged into the black of the night and the lights twinkling of the…

Fahrenheit 451, written by Ray Bradbury, takes place in a future America where books are forbidden and firemen burn down the houses that contain them. Guy Montag, once a fireman and under the influence of censorship, rebels when he discovers the magnificent power of books and the effect they have upon him. By ridding society of a resource for knowledge that is no longer deemed valuable, Bradbury warns that censorship shapes individuals who cannot think for themselves and leaves society as a…

Fire Through the events of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë utilizes fire as a mechanism of providing both light and destruction to the main characters of the story. Because Thornfield is often depicted as being an old establishment, its inhabitants have to employ some sense of light and through fire, they see fit. It was extremely necessary for when the “party” guests were residing in the house and heard a frightful ruckus on the floor above. In the means of destruction, fire stood as both the…

Raskolnikov only finds redemption when time slows down and gives him opportunities to reflect on his guilt. When Raskolnikov travels to Sonya’s house to hear her reading of Lazarus from the Bible, “the candle-end had long been burning out… casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book” (Dostoevsky 328). Dostoevsky employs the candlestick to freeze the passage of time because of the ambiguous state of the…

The Moral Influence of Literature In an immoral society where technology hypnotizes the people, books are illegal and philosophical thinking is frowned upon; individualism no longer exists, people claim to be happy but feel little emotion, and mistakes are never learned from. However, corruption and immorality remains the result when the obsession of literature and philosophy influence a man’s lifestyle. Philosophy and literature should be learned from, but with reason, adapted into our lives.…

SUMMARY Sets in the futuristic period, Guy Montag, a fireman, who, paradoxically, burns houses and illegally owned books. One night, after having burning quite number of homes and books, Montag met Clarisse, who happens to be his old neighbor. Clarisse, a seventeen year old, who is like a typical teenager, who likes to talk but what Clarisse sets from other teens is that she question about the world and nature In the course of the chapter one: part one, Clarisse asked Montag if he is happy, and…